Nathan Lynn BACHMAN

(1878-1937)

Senate Years of Service:

1933-1937

Party:

Democrat

BACHMAN, Nathan Lynn, a
Senator from Tennessee; born in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 2, 1878;
attended the public schools, Baylor Preparatory School for Boys,
Chattanooga, Tenn., Southwestern Presbyterian University,
Clarksville, Tenn., Central University, Danville, Ky., Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the University of
Chattanooga Law School, Chattanooga, Tenn.; graduated from the law
department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in
1903, admitted to the bar in 1903, and began practice in
Chattanooga, Tenn., in the same year; city attorney of Chattanooga
1906-1908; served as judge of the circuit court of Hamilton County,
Tenn.1912-1918; served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee from 1918 until his resignation in 1924; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination for United States Senator in 1924; resumed
the practice of law the same year; appointed on February 28, 1933,
and subsequently elected on November 6, 1934, as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Cordell Hull; reelected in 1936 and served from February 28,
1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1937;
interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.